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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. WATSON, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, AS'SIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TOJOSEPH BAYLDON TAYLOR, OF SAME PLAGE.

EARTH-CLOSET.,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,253, dated February8, 188.7.

Application filed May 2B, 1886. Serial No. 203,516. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, JOHN HENRY WATsoN, of the cityv of Toronto, in thecounty of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, patternmaker, haveinvented an Improvement in Earth-Closets, of which the followingisaspeciication. l

The inventionrelates to that class of earth closets orcommodes in whichthe deodori'zing material is discharged from a hopper containing it ontothe excrement by the upward movement of the seat when the party seatedthereon rises therefrom; and the object of the invention is to -insurethat the deodorizing material shall be thrown onto the excremen't, nomatter how slowly or quietly the party may rise from the seat; and itconsists, essentially, in providing a device which will hold thedeodorizing-material hopper in such a position `that when the deviceis.` removed from the hopper it will spring forward with a jerk'sufficiently to throw the required quantity of deodorizing material uponthe excrement, the said device being designed to move away from thehopper instantaneously, no matter how slowly the seat of the closet maybe permitted to rise.

In the drawings, Figure l represents acommode, a portion of the seatbeing vbroken away to exhibit the mechanism connected with my invention.Fig. 2 is a side View of the hopper and mechanism for operating thesame. A represents a hopper designed to contain the necessarydeodorizing material. This hopper is pivoted at a, and is provided witha weight, B, which will cause the hopper A to rock on its pivot when nototherwise held.

C is a bar, pivoted at b and connected to the spring D, as shown. Y

'VhenA the seat E is pressed down, the hopper A is pressed back by thepressure of the roller d, secured to the under side of thevseat. Vhenthus held back, the arm e, extending from the hopper A, is carried clearof the'bar C, the inner end of which baris simultaneously forced up bythe downward movement Vof the seat E, which, as will be seen, pressesdown the spring D, so as to carry with it the outer end of the bar C,the inner end of which, as stated, being brought up to a point in frontof the arm e. When the weight of the party is removed fromv the seat E,the said seat is designed to move upwardly in the ordinary way, and theroller d is moved clear of the hopper A, and as the seat E continues torise it leaves the spring D clear to act, permitting it to draw up theouter end of the bar C, the inner end of which is thus drawn down awayfrom the arm e, when the weight B causes the hopper A to rock on itspivot a with a jerking action, thereby causing the deodorizing materialin the hopper to be thrown I from its spout f upon the excrement withinthe pail F. 4

kIt will be ,understood that instead of the weight B a spring mightreadily be applied to operate the hopper A, and it will also beunderstood that instead of the spring D other substitutes might readilybe supplied by which the pivoted bar C will be carried .clear of thehopper A, 'so as to permit it to act in the manner described, theessential feature in my invention being an arrangement by which theroller d shall be entirely clear of thehopper A before the said hopperis permitted to be acted upon by its weight or spring.

What I claim as my inventionisl. .The combination, with'the pivotedhopper and seat, of a spring-actuated bar, substantially as described,engaging said hopper when the seat is held down, and constructed to bereleased by the upward movement of said seat, to entirely disengage thehopper and p ermit the same to suddenly ilip forward, substantially asand for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with the pivoted hopper and hingedseat, of thespring D, arranged beneath, in direct contact with, and operated by saidseat, and the pivoted bar C, connected with said spring, substantiallyas and for the purposes specified.

3. In an earth-closet, the combination, with the pivoted hopper A,provided with aweight, B, and the hinged seat E, of the bar e, attachedto said hopper, the pivoted bar C, carrying a roller engaging said bar,and the y spring D, arlanged beneath and operated by hopper, with oneend engaging said bar, subthe seat and connected with said pvoted barstantially as and for the purpose speeied.

C, substantialy as and for the purpose speo- Toronto, May 20, 1886. ed.

5 4. The combination, with the hopper piv- JOHN H XVATSON' oted ab itstop, of the bar e, attached to the In presence of rear of said hopper,and the spring-actuated CHARLES C. BALDWIN, bar C, pivoted near itscenter beneath said CHAS. H. RICHES.

